Zookeper is a coordination service that can provide a lot of help when developing distributed systems (See my previous post about it). An introduction to Zookeper has been recently published. You can see the video and some slides in PDF…

Simple DB is a new Amazon database service. It comes to complete the other two Amazon “elastic demand” services (the cloud computing EC2 service and the storage S3 service). As you can see in these slides, Simple DB is a database with relaxed constraints: no schema is needed, no explicit relationship and…

I have found these commandments for Google engineers:

1. All developers work out of a ~single source depot; shared infrastructure!
2. A developer can fix bugs anywhere in the source tree.
3. Building a product takes 3 commands (“get, config, make”)
4. Uniform…

Christopher Olston gave a talk about Pig. You can see the video of the talk here and the slides here.

Pig is an Open Source tool for the processsing an analysis of big datasets developed mainly by Yahoo! Research.

I have received this announcement from my friend Tomy Pelluz:

hackers, developers, designers, entrepreneur, thinkers, web-lovers, code-poets…

Something is happening in Barcelona Web n.0 scenario and you should pay attention…

Do not miss it ;-)

We will met here >…